"How did it turn out?"
Ian asked as Levi pulled him along.
"See for yourself."
An Image Recording Crystal flew toward him.
Ian caught it.
He immersed his mental power in it.
A familiar scene instantly appeared before him.
It was the Horton Wizard School.
Powerful light blazed from the numerous Wizard Arrays around the Academy. Elements streamed in from the surrounding Veridian Forest toward the school's Wizard Tower like a surging rainbow.
Then a fiery red figure streaked across the sky outside the school.
Ian looked closely.
It was a red-haired Wizard.
Flames engulfed him, but he did not approach the school.
Then, in the next instant...
The entire sky turned red. Dozens of flaming spheres, each several meters across, appeared overhead and hurtled toward the school's Wizard Tower like meteors.
Even the air in the sky shuddered.
Ian saw a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice try to stop them, but the slightest touch of flame reduced him to flying ash. The defensive Witchcraft Artifact that lit up did nothing.
In the end, the Wizard Tower emitted a faint curtain of light that blocked the attack.
But it stopped only most of the flames. A tenth still entered the school.
And even that tenth...
Turned the school into a sea of fire. The apprentices could not even put the flames out. Apprentices who had once seemed powerful within the school were as helpless as fragile ants; third-rank and first-rank alike, it made no difference.
Only then did the fiery figure in the sky move, charging toward the school.
Ian could even hear shouts like "Horton, your day has finally come!" and "Die!"
But the next second, countless green vines sprang from thin air outside the Wizard Tower. They stretched hundreds of meters and formed a massive hand in the sky, dozens